Re: Slow performance opening and closing programs

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"alxrays" <microsoft@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently re-formatted my hard drive,reloaded Windows XP Home Edition
SP2.
I only have AVG Anti Virus and the regular Windows Defender and
Firewall
running.I have a few not many programs installed and 101 GB of FREE
Space out
of 110. GB on my Hard drive. My Processor is Intel Pentium 4 CPU
2.53GHz
512MB PC1066 RDRAM (2x 256 modules)
However, Every time I try to open or close a program it takes quite
awhile.
It was never like this before-
Anyone have any suggestions besides getting a more up to date
computer? It
is a Dell 8250 bought in 2003.

Did your performace problems happen *immediately* after you performed
the clean install, or did it happen a bit later?

If they happened immediately after, I would suspect bad hardware.
Perhaps one of the RAM modules isn't seated properly. But then again,
256MB is not bad for a very light load. Perhaps there's a lot of dust
inside your PC which is responsible for overheating, which can cause
performance problems. Maybe your hard drive is going. For more about
hardware troubleshooting, see:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html

If you have *only* those programs mentioned above running, you should
not be experiencing bad performace. Then again, Windows Defender has
been known to be problematic. I would uninstall that program and use the
free versions of MBAM and SuperAntispyware instead.

What do you mean by "and Firewall"? Are you referring to the built-in
Windows Firewall?

Are you still at SP2?

Have you installed any Windows updates?


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